Quotes About Appearance

Men die once and women die twice. Women die as beauties before their bodies die.

La belleza es sólo visual, mas real en una película o en piedra que en tres dimensiones vivas.

Just what young Barnes said to Mr. Edison on that occasion was far less important than that which he thought. Edison, himself, said so! It could not have been the young man's appearance which got him his start in the Edison office, for that was definitely against him. It was what he THOUGHT

A good showman is one who can dramatize the commonplace events of life and give them the interesting appearance of uniqueness.

Tiene usted mala cara - dictaminó. - Indigestión. - ¿De qué? - De realidad.

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows.

Le maschere rivelano il vero volto delle persone

Loše izgledate, izrekao je. Loša probava, odvratio sam. ?ega? Stvarnosti. Niste jedini, priklopio je.

Despite his aggressive looks, Tomás was a peaceful and good-hearted person whose appearance discouraged confrontations.

Am Tisch saß ein Mann mittleren Alters, mittlerer Statur, mittlerer Glatze und mittlerer Mittelkeit.

Calculei-lhe uns vinte anos,no máximo,mas havia qualquer coisa no seu porte e no modo como a alma parecia cair-lhe aos pés,como os ramos de um salgueiro,que me fez pensar que não tinha idade.

it occurred to me that perhaps the papier-mâché world that I accepted as real was only a stage setting

round lenses augmented them, and his pomaded

was in diesem Dasein den Ausschlag gibt, ist allein der Schein.

Nuria Monfort era una mujer más que atractiva, de rasgos tallados para figurines de moda y retratos de estudio, a la que la juventud parecía estar escapándosele por la mirada.

Fumero laughed again, that forced, affected laugh that seemed to sum him up like the blurb on a book jacket.

Las apariencias no siempre engañan, pero casi siempre atontan

The cowl maketh the monk

Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness—it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.

Almost everyone agrees with her. However much they look into her eyes and think she is uttering mere niceties, they are sworn to that ultimate courtesy, which is to believe what people want us to believe. And thus, when Mrs. Willow bids them good afternoon, they courteously rise to their feet. "Good afternoon," they smile back, shaking hands carefully, and postponing their slow, rhythmic applause and the smashing of the teacups.

Everyone seated at the table stared at Mimi and the kids. They did not speak nor give them any form of recognition or welcome to join them. How dangerous can a grandmother and four kids look? Christina whispered to Alex, who giggled.

It's an old picture," said Stephen. "She's in her thirties now. I don't think she's pretty anymore.